Charles D. Alexander

Charles Dewey Alexander (October 27, 1897 – 1962) was an American children's writer of short stories and novels.

He was born in Ponca, Nebraska. At the age of two, he moved to the Albany, Oregon area with his parents. He attended Albany schools and began working in the printing trade as a teenager, first in his brother's printing shop, then with the Albany Democrat newspaper. Two hundred of Alexander's short stories were published in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Detective Fiction Weekly, Ace-High Detective Magazine, Blue Book and Sunset.

Alexander, also an expert linotype operator, retired as a full-time worker from the Democrat after 50 years in February 1962. His wife, Margaret Smith, whom he married in 1917, died in 1958.

Works Why I Choose to Live in Oregon, Portland, Oregon: Portland Chamber of Commerce, 192-? Across the Chasm, Chicago, Story-Press, 1922 The Blonde She of Yachats: a New Story of Black Buck, the Great Dog Who Went Back to the Wilderness After the Murder of his Master, Chicago: Story-press, 1922 The Noseless One, Chicago: Story-Press, 1922 The Place of Hisses, Chicago : Story-Press, 1922 The Weasel's Kit, Chicago: Story-Press, 1922 Wolf meets Wolf, Chicago: Story-Press, 1922 The Young of the Wolf, Chicago: Story-Press, 1922 The Fang in the Forest. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923 The Splendid Summits, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925 Bobbie, a Great Collie, New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926